Quality Assurance Manager Location: Stamford, CT
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
Job Description:
Experience: 5 years managing others
- YumEarth is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to lead and support our quality and food safety initiatives across suppliers co-manufacturers and co-packers.
- Manager will be responsible for establishing, tracking, measuring programs to assure that all materials, finished products and in house procedures comply with state, federal, customer and company requirements.
- QA Manager will perform maintain/create product specifications, conduct regular assessments of the food safety system, approve creation and improvements of all current programs and take corrective actions where necessary.
- Candidate must work well across multifunctional teams including operations, consumer affairs, marketing, finance and legal. Reports into the COO.
- Establish consistent product quality KPI.
- Measure, report, recommend and execute corrective actions.
- Taste, review and track all production samples for quality complianceDevelop initial and subsequent modifications of quality assurance program.
- Develop areas of responsibility, personnel requirements and operational procedures within the programWork with suppliers concerning the Quality and Food Safety of their products and their standards
- Ensure consistent compliance with all regulatory and company requirements by:
- Managing and coordinating the Global Food Safety Initiatives, HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), and Food Safety programs. FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act)
- Serving as liaison and for all regulatory (ie: FDA, USDA, ODA, OSHA, Oregon Tilth, Orthodox Union, PVNGMO, etc.) and 3rd party auditors (ie: AIB, NFPA, etc.)Participating in continuing education trade association functionsBuild quality, safety, and high yields into all aspects of manufacturing processes by partnering with operations and co-packers to:
- Manage program for monitoring to ensure packaging, ingredient and finished goods are in compliance with established specifications and purchase orders.
- This includes plant travelDevelop and/or maintain a Vendor Compliance Program (product specifications, kosher certificates, organic certificates, annual audit reports, supplier complaint reports, pesticide testing reports, COAs, etc.)
- Manage regulatory process and requirements of the companyCollaborates with Legal, Marketing, Sales, Quality Assurance, Purchasing, and Operations to leverage regulations
- Ensure that Company becomes and/or remains an approved supplier by submitting product specs, nutritional analysis, export certification, supplier questionnaires, audit follow up reports, etc.
- As required by customersSubmit all information and documentation necessary to aid customers in their product approval processesIdentify and provide resolution to strategic and tactical regulatory issues pertaining to food labeling.
- Communicate cross functionally and provide training to organization regarding current and emerging food labeling issues and opportunities.
- Build and maintain specification and formula data bases.
- Interacts with outside organizations to ensure compliance with all set criteria, to include Kosher, Halal, Non-GMO, Organic, and other programs as needed.
- Research, respond to, and resolve customer complaints proactively and thoroughly at the time they are reportedAssist in the development of new products
Experience: 5 years managing others